Dolgellau
Dolgellau is a market town and neighborhood in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, lying on the River Wnion, a tributary of the River Mawddach. It is traditionally the county town of the historic county of Merionethshire (Welsh: Meirionnydd, Sir Feirionnydd), which lost its administrative condition when Gwynedd was created in 1974. Dolgellau is the main base for mountain climbers of Cadair Idris. Although extremely little, it is the 2nd biggest settlement in Southern Gwynedd after Tywyn. The community consists of Penmaenpool. The name of the community is of unclear origin, although dôl is Welsh for "field" or "dale", and also (y) gelli (soft anomaly of celli) means "grove" or "spinney", and is common locally in names for farms in sheltered nooks. This would appear to be the most likely derivation, giving the translation "Grove Meadow". It has likewise been recommended that the name might derive from words cell, implying "cell", translating consequently as "Meadow of [monks'] cells", however this seems less likely considering the history of the name. The earliest recorded spelling (from 1253, in the Study of Merioneth) is "Dolkelew", although a spelling "Dolgethley" days from 1285. From after that till the 19th century, most punctuations were along the lines of "Dôlgelly" "Dolgelley", "Dolgelly" or "Dolgelli" (Owain Glyndwr's scribe wrote "Dolguelli"). Thomas Pennant made use of the form "Dolgelleu" in his Tours of Wales, and this was the type utilized in the Church Registers in 1723, although it never ever had much money. In 1825 the Registers had "Dolgellau", which develop Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt adopted in 1836. While this type may derive from a false etymology, it came to be basic in Welsh and is currently the conventional kind in both Welsh and English. It was adopted as the official name by the local country area council in 1958. Soon before the closure of the town's railway station it presented signs reading otherwise Dolgelly, Dolgelley and also Dolgellau.
